Word: sightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lazy to attend the formation drills during the week. I cannot believe that this is the true state of affairs. Permit me to hope that any small difficulty that stands in the way will be speedily overcome, and that the stands will soon be treated to the sight of that splendid instrument. I. M. Lauder...
...editors of the two boards have decided to treat the affair of 1926 without gloved hands for it is felt that the sight of the two colleges represented in one magazine will be sufficient to show Harvard and Princeton alumni that the relations of their respective alma maters are now amicable and sound...
Bereaved Marie of Jugoslavia stood as long as she could the sight of her son King Peter standing bareheaded in the rain, perhaps catching his death of cold. When she could stand it no longer Her Majesty motioned His Majesty to put on his cap, a handsome Sokol cap with a feather...
Said the Pittsburgh Press's Douglas Naylor of the No. 1 prizewinner: "Like some others, this reviewer smiled at first sight of South of Scranton. It seems reasonable to conclude that the cannon atop the queer turret is symbolic of capitalism." William Germain Dooley of the Boston Evening Transcript: "All very childlike and charming and deliberately naïve-but also completely counterfeit and insincere...
Died. Field Marshal Alexander von Kluck, 88, spearhead of the German onslaught on Paris in 1914; of old age; in Berlin. On the German right wing, he marched with startling swiftness through Belgium and northern France. Almost in sight of Paris but separated from von Billow's army and unable to keep communications open, he was beaten at the Marne and subsequently blamed by some tacticians for the German retreat. Few months later he was wounded and retired...